Product Description: This book is one of a series designed to present many different painters' views of a single subject. This book shows us something about what great artists saw when they were inspired by the skill and spectacle of the circus, with its daring trapeze artists, riotous clowns and dancing bears...read more

Product Description: Combines, in one volume, a brief straightforward examination of the historical, social, theological, and comparative aspects of Christianity with an analysis of issues in its development and the challenges it faces in modern times..

Product Description: Down the ages clowns have captured the laughter of adult and child alike with their absurd dress, bizarre antics and a brand of humor whose universality has stood the test of centuries. In this extensive study of clowns and clowning, Beryl Hugill draws the parallels between ancient and modern clowns and traces the story of clowning from its origins in the ancient world of Egypt, China and India, through the padded buffoons of Greek drama and the dwarfed and deformed figures that populated royal households, to the era of court jesters, and describes their function and role in society and the form of their entertainment...read more